LabCorp Must Defend Pap Smear Misreading

Burlington, N.C.-based Laboratory Corporation of America’s alleged negligence in failing to flag abnormal results in a routine cancer screening is going to trial in Ohio (Reber v. Lab. Corp. of Am., 2017 BL 312986, S.D. Ohio, No. 2:14-cv-2694, 9/6/17).

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Sept. 6 denied the company’s motion for pretrial judgment in a case alleging one of its laboratory technicians failed to detect and report cancerous cells in a cervical cancer screening tool known as a Pap smear. The court, however, said plaintiff Bryan Reber, whose wife died ...